Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

It's easy to see why charitable remainder trusts, or CRTs, continue to grow in popularity. You get to eat your cake and have it, too. CRTs allow donors to sell appreciated stock without paying capital ...

Over the many years that I practiced, the popularity of the charitable remainder trust ebbed and flowed. Though always recognized as a versatile planning tool, CRTs were mainly touted as a vehicle for ...

Nearly half of American adults are now single, and more people than ever are choosing not to have children, yet almost all financial planning still assumes they will do both. Tax breaks, retirement ...

Charitable gift annuities are one of the simplest ways of giving but one of the most overlooked. That was the word from two members of PNC Institutional Asset Management’s planned giving solutions ...